When we do Microsoft Dynamics Business Central or Dynamics NAV development, one of our goals is to minimize the work required during an upgrade. When it comes to report customizations, we can handle this by using a custom report layout instead of modifying an existing report. It’s easier to upgrade, and it’s not any harder than modifying the existing report layout. I’ll talk you through custom report layout limitations, how you can make a custom report layout, and why you would want one.
Tag Archives: Report
How To: Add Filters in a Report in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central or Dynamics NAV
This blog provides step-by-step instructions on how to add filters in a report in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central or Dynamics NAV. In the example provided, if you want to be able to view only blocked customers, adding a filter in a report will allow you to so.
Update your report based on a website
A quick hack today. Got this question from someone who needed to be able to update a report and show users that something had changed. This is easy when you have access to a database and can add data to it but in this case that was not possible.
So I came up with a hacky (and great :P) way to do this. and wanted to share it in case it came handy in your box of tricks :).
How Do I : Create a Document Report, and layout, in VSCode? (part1)
In my blog post: How Do I : Create a Report, and layout, in VSCode? I explained the basics on how you can create a simple report for Business Central. In this post, and due to many requests, I will explain how you can get started to create a document report.
How To Create a Report in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central or Dynamics NAV
This blog provides an overview of how a report is created in Microsoft Dynamics 365/NAV and how to publish it to the client. It also discusses how to build a report in the SQL Server Report Builder.
Show the refresh date\time in a Power BI report and dashboard
A short post today. Someone recently asked me: “How can I show the date and time this data has been refreshed last in my report and dashboard?”. Here are 2 simple tricks to help you visualize this.
RDLC Reports Development and Visual Studio 2017
[Just a note to myself as I always need to look up what to download and install on Visual Studio 2017 to allow me to work on RDLC layouts for my reports.]